Geosciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	111
2	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	106
3	Remote Sensing	86
4	Remote Sensing of Environment	83
5	Nature Climate Change	81
6	Journal of Hydrology	73
7	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	71
8	Desalination	70
9	Ocean Engineering	69
10	Water	68
11	Journal of Water Process Engineering	67
12	Earth-Science Reviews	65
13	Gondwana Research	64
14	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	63
15	Nature Geoscience	61
-	Earth System Science Data	61
17	Geophysical Research Letters	59
18	CATENA	58
19	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	57
-	Geoderma	57
-	Engineering Geology	57
22	Landscape and Urban Planning	55
-	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	55
-	Communications Earth & Environment	55
-	Environmental Research Letters	55
26	Urban Climate	54
-	Agricultural Water Management	54
-	Geoscience Frontiers	54
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	54
30	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	53
31	Drones	52
32	Computers and Geotechnics	51
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	51
34	Earths Future	50
35	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	49
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	49
37	Ocean & Coastal Management	48
38	Soil & Tillage Research	47
-	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	47
-	Applied Soil Ecology	47
41	Minerals Engineering	46
-	Crystals	46
-	Applied Water Science	46
44	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	45
-	Water Resources Research	45
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	45
-	Atmosphere	45
48	Atmospheric Research	44
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	44
50	Applied Clay Science	42

51	Global Ecology and Biogeography	41
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	41
53	Natural Hazards	40
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	40
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	40
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	40
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	40
58	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	39
-	Acta Geotechnica	39
-	Minerals	39
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	39
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	39
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	39
64	Plant and Soil	38
-	Landslides	38
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	38
67	Marine and Petroleum Geology	37
-	Water Resources Management	37
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	37
-	Computers & Geosciences	37
71	Water Air and Soil Pollution	36
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	36
-	Atmospheric Environment	36
-	Geoscientific Model Development	36
-	Advances in Space Research	36
-	Applied Ocean Research	36
77	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	35
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	35
-	Crystal Growth & Design	35
-	Biochar	35
82	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	34
-	Ore Geology Reviews	34
-	Transportation Geotechnics	34
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	34
-	Chemical Geology	34
87	npj Clean Water	33
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	33
-	Land Degradation & Development	33
-	Reviews of Geophysics	33
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	33
92	Water Science and Technology	32
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	32
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	32
-	Climatic Change	32
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	32
-	Frontiers in Earth Science	32
99	Geology	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	31
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	31
-	Natural Resources Research	31
-	Journal of Climate	31
-	Global and Planetary Change	31
-	Geocarto International	31
107	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	30
-	Polyhedron	30
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	30
-	Geothermics	30
-	International Journal of Climatology	30
-	Climate Dynamics	30
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	30
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	30
-	Earth System Dynamics	30
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	30
119	Limnology and Oceanography	29
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	29
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	29
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	29
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	29
-	Pedosphere	29
-	Geotechnique	29
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	29
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	29
-	Applied Geochemistry	29
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	29
131	Geophysics	28
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	28
-	JOM	28
-	Cryosphere	28
-	CrystEngComm	28
-	Advances in Water Resources	28
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	28
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	28
-	Geomorphology	28
-	Geophysical Journal International	28
-	GPS Solutions	28
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
-	Environmental Toxicology	28
-	Biogeosciences	28
145	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	27
-	Rhizosphere	27
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	27
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	27
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	27
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	27
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	27
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	27
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	27
-	Plant Phenomics	27
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	27
156	Surveys in Geophysics	26
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	26
-	Earth and Space Science	26
-	Economic Geology	26
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	26
-	Progress in Oceanography	26
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	26
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	26
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	26
-	Earth Science Informatics	26
166	International Journal of Remote Sensing	25
-	Landscape Ecology	25
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	25
-	Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies	25
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	25
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	25
172	Journal of African Earth Sciences	24
-	International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics	24
-	ACS Earth and Space Chemistry	24
-	Tectonophysics	24

-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	24
-	Journal of Applied Geophysics	24
-	Hydrological Processes	24
-	Climate Risk Management	24
-	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	24
181	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	23
-	Lithosphere	23
-	Seismological Research Letters	23
-	Journal of Biogeography	23
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	23
-	Astrobiology	23
-	Exposure and Health	23
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	23
-	Soil Use and Management	23
-	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences	23
-	Journal of Earth Science	23
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	23
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	23
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	23
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	23
-	Earth Planets and Space	23
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	23
198	Marine Ecology Progress Series	22
-	Journal of Applied Crystallography	22
-	Journal of Geodesy	22

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